Emergency Management

Anybody know of any state requirements to be a member / coordinator of a local office of emergency management. We are surrounded by water on all sides, ocean and river, and OEM is a very big necessity in our town (considering the fact that it floods every time someone flushes their toilet). I have heard many different things including there is no requirement for OEM (I know that person is wrong). Hoping somebody can clear things up for me.

oem

murph

most OEM officers come from the local emergency services depts and have passed through the ranks . our town its the PD prior it was FD ,depends on whos who ! the only requirement to my knowldge is IMS. contact the MCFA at 732-938-5323 talk to GORDY or BILL ,if they don'thave the info they will get it! call after 7:00 pm

"there is no greater family outside our own than the brotherhood of firefighters"

Very good, thanks for the input. I am a life long resident, police officer, and member of fire / ems. Currently our first aid capt. is the coordinator, but rummor has it our mayor (OEM members are appointed by her) is looking to "update".

As far as I recall, there are no requirements outside of ims to be in oem. However I believe it is state statue that in order to be a cordinator you need to be a resident of the town you are applying for. I am not sure but I also remeber there being classes that are needed as far as mangement and coridiantion, and you have to maintain a ceu type status. For better info check your town ordinance books. Also in may there is a NJEPA conference in AC. It is mostly oem, you will be able to network with a lot of people to get the right answers.

Flood Course

This doesn't answer your question but it came to mind when you described your response area. There is a course on February 6th at night at the Avalon Fire Department in Cape May County (Exit 13 GSP). It is titled "Urban Flood Response - Level 1" and gives 4 elective CEUs for your EMT certification. I don't know if it's something you'd be interested in travelling down here for but I thought I'd let you know about it. You can get more information off the CEU page of the OEMS website.